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Hello, |
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On Friday 02 December 2005 00:02, Brett Johnson wrote: |
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> Petric Frank wrote: |
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> >Hello, |
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> >given a mainboard having 2 SATA controllers. One VIA (from the chipset) |
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> > and one additional Promise SATA. CPU is a AMD64. |
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> >Up to now i had 2 SATA disks attached to the VIA controller. |
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> >The kernel (2.6.14-r2) is built monolithic in regards of the SATA chips. |
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> >Now i added a third harddisk and i recogized that the new disk was |
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> > inserted before the other two. It seems that the promise kernel part is |
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> > loaded before the VIA driver. |
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> >So my question - is there a kernel parameter (to be given to grub.conf) |
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> > which instructs the kernel to process the VIA kernel part first ? |
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> >regards |
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> > Petric |
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> My Asus MB lets me pick which chipset to load first in the BIOS. You can |
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> look there. |
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But this does not affect the Linux kerner, doesn't it ? |
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> Another option would be to build the Promise driver is a module, and |
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> load it during |
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> the boot process. |
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Can not be done if you want to boot also from there (actually not, but in |
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future). |
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As far as i can see up to now i have 2 options: |
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1. Reconfigure where the disks are attached to the mainboard |
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2. Completely reconfigure the boot loader. |
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Both not really preferrable. |
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(What happens if a fourth disk comes in ...) |
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Ist there no kernel option like "reverse" (or loke that) telling the kernel to |
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process the disk drivers in reverse order. |
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regards |
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Petric |
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